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  2. Conway's law - Wikipedia

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    The law is, in a strict sense, only about correspondence; it does not state that communication structure is the cause of system structure, merely describes the connection. Different commentators have taken various positions on the direction of causality; that technical design causes the organization to restructure to fit, [ 10 ] that the ...

  3. Melvin Conway - Wikipedia

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    Melvin Edward Conway is an American computer scientist, computer programmer, and hacker who coined what is now known as Conway's law: "Organizations, who design systems, are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

  4. Lasswell's model of communication - Wikipedia

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    Lasswell's model is one of the earliest and most influential models of communication. [3]: 109 It was first published by Harold Lasswell in his 1948 essay The Structure and Function of Communication in Society. [4] Its aim is to organize the "scientific study of the process of communication".

  5. Models of communication - Wikipedia

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    [142] [151] [153] Communication may fail, for example, if the receiver lacks the decoding skills necessary to understand the message or if the source has a demeaning attitude toward the receiver. [158] [153] For the message, the main factors are code, content, and treatment, each of which can be analyzed in terms of its structure and its elements.

  6. Text and conversation theory - Wikipedia

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    Agency is the reason people do things, because they have a choice [3] This is the process individuals internalize actions and make choices, rather than making decisions because the structure says they should. Structure is based on the formal organization and accepted policy. Agency is informal communication and individually based.

  7. Four-sides model - Wikipedia

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    The four-sides model also known as communication square or four-ears model is a communication model described in 1981 by German psychologist Friedemann Schulz von Thun. [2] [3] It describes the multi-layered structure of human utterances.

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  9. Harold Innis's communications theories - Wikipedia

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    The book as a specialized product of printing and, in turn, the newspaper strengthened the position of language as a basis of nationalism. In the United States, the dominance of the newspaper led to large-scale development of monopolies of communication in terms of space and implied a neglect of problems of time. [22]